My employer Canterbury Shaker Village lost a small NEH grant. I wrote it. I used words such as "equality" and "citizenship." The same words were used in CHATGPT to cancel grants. The same words are in the nation's founding documents.

Millions of Students Attend Schools Near Toxic Sites, a New Study Shows: Exposure to pollutants affects students’ health and learning www.edweek.org/leadership/m...

"Through the framework of vocational awe, I will explore how an expanded workload created by the implementation of generative AI can lead those in higher education to burnout." AI Fatigue and Vocational Awe in Academic Libraries by Greyson Pasiak scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/04/g...

Some happy news, friends!

What a fantastic, vulnerable, important piece by @liznorell.bsky.social. I cant recommend this enough. For autistic folks, sure, but also for anyone who works with human beings. open.substack.com/pub/engagedl...

In surprise reversal, Republican lawmaker moves to ban open carry on Utah college campuses www.sltrib.com/news/educati... Perhaps helpful to people watching #NHPolitics right now.

"History shows that wars can be lost before they are even declared if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now,

A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o... (gift link) #ai #higherEd

Is this satire? Is this real? Is this a colossal fucking JOKE? Have we truly entered an educational era where we're told we need to pick between a $250 commercial textbook and a cheap AI-generated slopfest? futurism.com/artificial-i... #NotOpenPedagogy #OER #DoNotDoThis #NotOER #AI #PedagogicalNope

Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"

Together, we are America. Well done, Bad Bunny.

What a moment.

If you needed any more proof that joy is a powerful form of resistance, this was it.

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Mike Tyson in a MAHA ad against processed foods. In 1992 Mike Tyson was convicted of raping an 18-year-old. Eat more apples though!

This is a love song to what the Latino community brings to the US - protest in art in its purest form and its widely entertaining. Well done all the way around.

As a former Bostonian and lifelong New Englander: Go Seahawks! Ok, someone ping me when it’s time for #BadBunny.

Woohoo! Comic syllabus for my superhero class is live and students were geeked! It was a mammoth effort to make it but so worth it to be able to give to them! Pleased & excited for the term! And you can have your own too - all on my site for printing, sharing! 1/? spinweaveandcut.com/superhero-sy...

they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American

Sure this can happen in the bisexual socialist paradise of Iberville Parish Louisiana but what about Real America?

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Guess who is once again displaying their ability to hyperfocus on being a hater? It's me, I spent all evening writing my own compilation of all the reasons I think AI sucks so I can post it under genAI-made FB posts. Work-in-progress, suggestions welcome! www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...

My actual job description is activist and here’s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.

🧊 "We're going to get an ICE detention facility before we get a grocery store!"

Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.

thank you for everything you did for we here and for the library and information science profession, fobazi. you were an incredible friend, thinker, writer, supporter. you’ll be dearly missed 🤍

"The student becomes a suite of data points that the teacher or chatbot can nudge, track, and optimize. The university, meanwhile, is less the site of critical engagement than yet another platform for productivity enhancement."

“All things considered, ‘Teaching with AI’ is not without value; it is a case study in how even well-meaning educators operating in good faith can become inadvertent agents of a pedagogical de-skilling and institutional dehumanization.”

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet, says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes theconversation.com/when-science... #OpenAccess #OA #HigherEd

WELCOME TO THE AMERICAN WINTER In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening... Read this excellent Atlantic piece (gift link) by Robert F. Worth: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Now do every uni

Emory libraries cancel Elsevier journals due to rising journal costs www.emorywheel.com/article/2026... #OA #OpenAccess

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

New article in The Guardian, outlining what is happening everywhere in U.S. #HigherEd. Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universities www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I've been working on a secret project since October which is now ready for the world to see: an #OpenAccess book collecting most of my posts for the old Finite Eyes blog, called [drum roll] FINITE EYES: ESSAYS ON EDUCATION AND ACCESS. matthewcheney.net/books/finite...

My friend, Matthew Cheney, has published a new collection of essays on teaching. It's open access, so you can read it for free. This work displays the fierce, gentle power of generosity, and honors the humanity at the core of education. I can't recommend it enough. matthewcheney.net/blog/finite-...

My friend, Matthew Cheney, has published a new collection of essays on teaching. It's open access, so you can read it for free. This work displays the fierce, gentle power of generosity, and honors the humanity at the core of education. I can't recommend it enough. matthewcheney.net/blog/finite-...

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

You can be a punk library or a cop library; you can care about the people or the stuff. Choose the people. 📚

And just like that, No New Wars America First MAGA is for bombing everyone and regime change to enrich oligarchs.

Please read. This was also my “retirement party,” celebrating the involuntary loss of my tenured professorship after 25 years of service to my public university.

Live Updates: Suspect in Brown University Shooting Is Found Dead in New Hampshire www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

38% of Americans get their “news” from Fox. Whatever we all witnessed last night is muted by the hammering Fox does to boost his lies and manufacture his credibility. It seems asinine when you think critically, but if you’re just consuming, it’s deadly effective.

When the FBI realized they had the wrong guy in the Brown University shooting, I hope they were looking at Kash Patel.

In October, we learned that a quarter of U.S. FBI agents had been reassigned from investigations and security work to immigration enforcement. Meanwhile I wait- and wait- for them to catch the gunman that shot 10 of my kid’s classmates. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... #kashPatel #Brown

My child is a student at Brown. This has been and continues to be harrowing. I don’t have hope that we can stop mass shootings given the violence ingrained in our country’s history and culture. But we know we could reduce them with policy change that we have long lacked the political will to enact.